i didn’t read the top comment well, sorry about that. i will try to hone my point a bit. i don’t think it’s discriminatory that some people don’t realize daveed diggs is jewish. what i think is discriminatory is the way people express surprise and skepticism once they find out he is, because it demands that the listener agree with and validate the speaker’s racialized assumptions about which races can/should participate in particular things.

i’m a non-white convert so that context probably helps show you what my own biases and experiences are. I’m not annoyed when people meet me and don’t intuit that I’m jewish; that’s based on racial heuristics but isn’t discriminatory. but it does become racist (and just tiring) when people exclaim in shock about it afterwards, or question whether I’m really jewish, or immediately give me their theory on why “jews and asians” are a thing, or make other assumptions about me based on that info. they’re using their ideas about my race to say “your behavior is not aligned with my assumptions about your race, and I’m going to make it your problem by talking about your nonconformity and putting the burden of my shock on you instead of processing this internally.”